7:37 AM,
Feb. 18, 2013

Country singer Mindy McCready, seen here performing in Nashville, Tenn. in 2008, died Sunday. She was 37.

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Brian Mansfield and William M. Welch
USA TODAY

HELEN SPRINGS, Ark. - Mindy McCready, a country singer better known recently for her ongoing personal troubles than for her string of late-'90s hits, died Sunday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at her Arkansas home, the Cleburne County sheriff said.

Sheriff Marty Moss said his office received a call to the McCready home around 3:30 p.m. local time in Heber Springs, Ark., west of Memphis and north of Little Rock.

"Ms. McCready is deceased from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound,'' Moss told USA TODAY. ...